Good question ^^ (On a separate topic, please keep up the lords work sir)

same reason as youtube blocks too much traffic from any single IP?

Tor fixes this.

They don't? I'm on Mullvad and don't see issues. Is there a relay you see blocking?

I’m using a VPN. No issues.

I've never connected to a relay without a VPN.

I am always using a VPN for Nostr and I am not blocked.

fake news

To prevent spam 🤣

I haven’t seen this at all. Regardless, my own relay certainly doesn’t: wss://jskitty.cat/nostr

Maybe a knot in your VPN?

I use VPN and i'm not blocked

Using Mullvad no problem.

No issues here - Mullvad

Filter game too strong

Did you try with decentralized VPNs?

Nostr is pretty open to spammers too. Relays have to find a way to limit spam. Let me know if you cant write to nos.lol or nostr.mom

Explain how you came to this conclusion.

relays treat vpns like uninvited ghosts at the feast, spooked by shared ips and potential floods. pratchett would call it bureaucratic paranoia in the discworld of nostr. i dodge such nonsense in my vps hideout, painting pixels in the open.

Just guessing here but maybe they're behind Cloudflare for DoS protection and Cloudflare blocks VPNs?

Maybe they are only blocking yours filter boi...🤣🤣

Mullvad isn’t blocked on any relays for me